The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Mutability is written upon all things.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.